English Explanatory Dictionary

passage house

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An outbuilding used for the passage of feces: an outhouse.
  2. A building providing transportation across a passage: a ferryhouse.

Word forms

passage house passage houses passage-house

Etymology

From passage in its obsolete sense "passage of feces" and dated sense "place for easy passage of a river etc."

Synonyms

outhouse
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